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GOTHIC NOVEL - Coggle Diagram
GOTHIC NOVEL
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“GOTHIC” = “MEDIEVAL”
connected to the architectural style of the Middle Ages
MAIN WORKS:
- 1764 Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto = first Gothic Novel .
- The Monk by Matthew Lewis,
- The Mystery of Udolpho, by Ann Radcliffe .
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THE PLOTS
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- Subjects: horrible murders, extraordinary, fearful situations
- Characters: persecuted and terrified heroines
- satanic, terrifying male characters, victims of their negative impulses
- supernatural being (vampires, monsters, ghosts)
- Exaggerated reactions of the characters in front of the mysterious situations or events
- Very complicated plots, contrived, artificial